Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m16b3a$d52$1@dont-
email.me:

I've always loved math, but at the time I had gotten
hooked on electronics. Not that I regret that decision - I don't. But
the more I see about what physicists are discovering, the more I want to
be involved.


I got into electronics too, but it had more to do with the little neon bulbs
than the maths. The things totally fascinated me as a kid. IO was never
good at maths, I only got to grips with logarithms because I needed them to
make a phase mod synth actually happen, with my own code.

Maybe my use of word 'metaphysical' is badly chosen, what I really mean is
that no usefully predictive theory (so far as I know) models information in a
coherently or structured link as mass is to energy. If it did the worth of
maths changes entirely from an explanatory device, to a means of actually
making stuff. The patterns of numbers are as 'out there' as any physical
discovery, so perhaps this is so. The bit that does get tangled with
metaphysics is that if this is so, then our thought (as well as our
observations, a fact already established in quantum theory) shapes our world
in ways more fundamentally direct than we usually imagine. It opens up
questions as to whether the ever present risk of war is due to the human
obsession with it rather than anything else, and perhaps the reason that
physists, despite having created the atomic bomb, tend not to 'do war'
precisely because they're usually too busy thinking deeply about other
things.